CLYRO M245
Official No: 143849 Port Number and Year: 617th in London, 1920 (LO332)
2nd in Milford, 1922
Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail, mizzen.
Crew: 11 men
Registered at Milford: 4 Jan 1922
Built: 1917 by Smith's Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, for the Admiralty as THOMAS TWINEY. (Yard no. 707)
Tonnage: 275.13 grt 107.43 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.5 / 23.4 / 12.85
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 61 hp.10 kts. Engine: 1917, by builders; boiler: 1917, by Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle on Tyne.
Owners:
Renamed CLYRO M245
4 Jan 1922: David Pettit, 'Westcliffe', Wellington Rd., Hakin (64/64)
Manager / Owner
(Later:) David Pettit ltd., Docks, Milford
Manager: Mrs Elizabeth Ann Heck Pettit
7 Nov 1934: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
Manager: B. A. Parkes
Landed at Milford: 19 Jan 1922 - 10 Jun 1934
Skippers:
Notes: 7 Sep 1917: Completed as a minesweeper THOMAS TWINEY (Admy no. 3528). 1 x 12 pdr.
19 Feb 1920: Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO332).
2 Jan 1922: London registry closed; 4 Jan, registered at Milford and renamed CLYRO.
13 Aug 1935: Sailed Ayr for fishing grounds. Stranded on Powder House Rock, Culzean Bay. Badly holed and making water, eight crew members abandoned. Girvan lifeboat stood by 00.30 am to 3.45 pm. Skipper and four crew members manned pumps but had to abandon when water level reached boiler room plates. Wreck subsequently thought to have been used as a target for a gunnery range and destroyed. [Information from Gilbert Mayes. See also newspaper article below.]
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 21 Oct 1935
Accidents and Incidents
From The Scotsman of Thursday 15th August 1935, p.6:
TRAWLER ASHORE
Girvan Lifeboat in Dash to Rescue
STANDS BY 12 HOURS
Several hundred people in Girvan who were rudely awakened about midnight on Tuesday by the sound of rockets being fired and a ship's distress siren being blown, ran to the harbour and saw the Girvan lifeboat leave with an emergency crew on a voyage of rescue.
News had been received that the Milford Haven trawler Clyro, M.245, owned by the Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Company, Fleetwood, had gone ashore, and been holed on the rocks at Culzean Bay, Ayrshire, and the fear was expressed that the ship was also on fire, as tongues of flame were to be seen on deck. It was ascertained later, however, that the crew had set some tar barrels alight as an added distress signal, and the vessel's danger, although great enough, was fortunately not added to by outbreak of fire.
A calm sea was running, and the Girvan lifeboat soon reached the distressed ship.
Previously, Ballantrae Rocket Lifesaving Brigade had been communicated with, and the brigade crew immediately set out for the scene of the wreck.
MAY BECOME A TOTAL WRECK
It was found, however, that the immediate services of neither the lifeboatmen nor the rocket lifesaving brigade were required, as Mr Edward Flynn, Maidens, had put out from Maidens with some companions immediately after the Clyro had struck, and had taken off six of the fourteen men aboard. The rescued men were given shelter and hospitality by Mrs. Flynn.
Captain Stean, skipper of the Clyro, informed the lifeboatmen and rocket lifesaving crew that the vessel was not in any immediate danger, although there was a fear that she might list. He and the remaining members of the crew elected to stay on board.
The Girvan lifeboat stood by the Clyro for twelve hours, and then returned to Girvan, a Glasgow tug having arrived at Culzean Bay to stand by.
It is stated that the Clyro may become a total wreck.
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